Goldin+Senneby
  • Goldin+Senneby, Headless. From the public record. with Angus Cameron (economic geographer), K.D. (fictional author), Kim Einarsson (curator/writer), Anna Heymowska (set designer), Marcus Lindeen (director), and Eva Rexed (actor), 2009, Installation, PowerPoint, recorded conversation, 00:39:21

  • Goldin+Senneby, 'Standard Length of a Miracle (The Bootleg)', Installation view. Photo: Louis Lim

  • Goldin+Senneby, 'The Temperature of Speculation', 2010/2017. Android application measuring the price of temperature. Photo: Louis Lim

  • Goldin+Senneby, 'The Plot with Ryan Presley (artist)', 2017. Land, charcoal wall drawing, tape, deed of sale. Photo: Louis Lim

  • Goldin+Senneby, 'Standard Length of a Miracle (The Bootleg)', Installation view. Photo: Louis Lim

  • Camila Marambio and Amaara Raheem, 'Meth(odology) Lab: making TIME', 2017. Photo: Louis Lim

  • Camila Marambio and Amaara Raheem, 'Meth(odology) Lab: making TIME', 2017. Photo: Louis Lim

  • Goldin+Senneby, 'ACID MONEY', with Malin Nilsson (magician) and Théo Bourgeron (sociologist of finance), 2017, magic demonstration and magic poster. Installation view: Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane, 2018. Photo: Carl Warner

  • Goldin+Senneby, 'ACID MONEY', with Malin Nilsson (magician) and Théo Bourgeron (sociologist of finance), 2017, magic demonstration and magic poster. Installation view: Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane, 2018. Photo: Carl Warner

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Goldin+Senneby

Standard Length of a Miracle (The Bootleg)

18 November–10 March 201818 Nov–10 Mar 2018

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The first chapter of Goldin+Senneby’s survey exhibition, Standard Length of a Miracle (the Bootleg), unfolded across three ‘stages’ that set up an interplay of finance, conspiracy, and magic. This second chapter concentrates on those three central thematics with a magic show, a patent for a magic-based trade algorithm, and a psychedelic environment created through a promotional poster and a familiar scent; the latter inspired by Camila Marambio and Amaara Raheem’s Meth(odology) Lab from the first chapter.

For the past ten years, Goldin+Senneby has used methods and tools inspired by the financial sector to illuminate and subvert our late-capitalist system. The IMA is pleased to present the second iteration of their mutating retrospective, Standard Length of a Miracle, which premiered at Tensta konsthall, Stockholm in 2016. Responding to the challenge of mounting a retrospective in Australia and at the same time resisting the urge to pack up the physical traces of all past projects and ship them around the world, the artists have presented bootlegs and replicas of their major works.

For the first chapter of the Brisbane show, Goldin+Senneby invited Camila Marambio and Amaara Raheem to act as interlocutors. Their Meth(odology) Lab, operational during the first week of that show, saw the interlocutors onsite creating TIME: an immersive set of procedures that distil and digest through-lines of Goldin+Senneby’s practice. Another artwork, Headless, was activated by long-time spokesperson for Goldin+Senneby, Angus Cameron, in conversation with Aboriginal elder and academic Mary Graham, moderated by Raheem. A new iteration of an ongoing project, The Plot with Ryan Presley (artist), was realised in collaboration with the eponymous artist, creating graphic and conceptual links between Brisbane and Genk, Belgium. The exhibition will culminate with a magic demonstration, Acid Money, performed by magician Malin Nilsson.

Goldin+Senneby’s exhibition at the IMA is supported by Iaspis – the Swedish Arts Grants Committee’s International Programme for Visual and Applied Artists.

Artist Bio
Goldin+Senneby

Goldin+Senneby is a Stockholm-based artist subject. Since 2004 their work has explored the structural correspondence between conceptual art and finance capital, drawn to its (il)logical conclusions. Recent works include a ghostwritten detective novel about an offshore company on the Bahamas (2007-2015), a magic trick for the financial markets (2016) and a proposal for an eternal employment at a train station (2026-). Currently their practice is mutating: Drawing on bodily experiences of an autoimmune disease, they are staging a fiction with an ”autoimmune tree” as the main protagonist.

The Institute of Modern Art acknowledges the traditional custodians of the land upon which the IMA now stands, the Jagera, Yuggera, Yugarapul, and Turrbal people. We offer our respect to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people as the first artists of this country. In the spirit of allyship, the IMA will continue to work with First Nations people to celebrate, support, and present their immense past, present, and future contribution to artistic practice and cultural expression.

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